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Re:Why Dart is not the language of the future. by andrewcooke on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @12:29PM (#3099203)
please can you explain what

    value = 5 "The value is " + 5
is supposed to do? at the moment i can't work out why it would be frustrating to be unable to type something that looks like a syntax error... (i'm assuming it has some meaning in a language i don't know, which i guess would mean php).

edit: what does "say" mean in the reply below? print? evaluate? and does "later" mean in another statement? or replacing what was before?

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Re:Why Dart is not the language of the future. by stickfigure on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @01:45PM (#3099536)
The problem is that his two lines of code got joined by HN's formatter (which needs two newlines for a real line break). Presumably his desired message was:

value = 5

"The value is " + 5

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Re:Why Dart is not the language of the future. by Miky on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @12:40PM (#3099255)
He means that he can't say “value = 5” and then later say “"the value is " + 5”.
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